Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
-Winston S. Churchill
Quotations
Democracy
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-James Bovard
"Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty"
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; It’s the counting.
-Tom Stoppard "Tom Stoppard"
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
-Robert Byrne
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
-Jorge Luis Borges
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
-Ambrose Bierce
Democracy means not I am as good as you are, but you are as good as I am.
-Theodore Parker
